The open source community strikes back

The open source community strikes back

A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, a deceptively simple idea started to take hold within the development community: Software, given its immense potential as an engine of change, should be made free and open to everyone. Unsurprisingly, this idea—most...
The open source community strikes back

Couchbase Capella gets columnar support on AWS

NoSQL document-oriented database provider Couchbase is adding columnar support to its managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS), Capella, on AWS. Here columnar support refers to the columnar database management system, which is typically NoSQL in nature and is implemented...
The open source community strikes back

Cloud application portability remains unrealistic

Cloud portability once seemed like a groundbreaking advancement in the digital infrastructure landscape. Initial expectations were high with the launch of Amazon S3 in 2006 and similar services. Providers promised the ability to migrate workloads across different...
The open source community strikes back

Elastic’s return to open source

The big news in the open source world last week was Elastic’s return to open source. As the Elastic founder and CTO Shay Banon announced, “We never stopped believing in open source at Elastic” and so Elastic “will be adding AGPL [GNU Affero General Public License] as...
The open source community strikes back

The future of Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure

For the past decade, Kubernetes has been the dominant force in cloud-native computing and in enterprise software generally, as cloud providers and their customers have turned toward running their applications and services in clusters of containers instead of in tiers...